Hop Protocol vs Optimism Gateway Optimism Gateway leads by 14 points.
Optimism Gateway scores 14 points above Hop Protocol, which no longer operates (since 2026-10-23) and scores zero on the criteria block. Hop Protocol ranks #18 and Optimism Gateway #9 of 18 published bridges. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
HOHop Protocol41
vs
Optimism Gateway55
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #18 and #9 of 18
No longer operatingEligibilityoperatingsunset 2026-10-23—+26.0for Optimism Gateway
Net of the terms+51.3
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread−1.1
Reproduced gap+50.2
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below5541+14.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
EvidenceEvidence evidence high vs evidence low — how well each score is supported, not the score itself
Optimism Gateway's lead rests on lighter criteria: Hop Protocol is ahead on route coverage, which carries more weight (28) than any criterion Optimism Gateway leads on (26).
Hop Protocol no longer operates (since 2026-10-23) and is kept for reference: the engine zeroes its criteria block, whatever its cells say.
A floor bound on one row means the criterion arithmetic does not reproduce the displayed gap exactly.
Optimism GatewayScore 55Native canonical bridge for Ethereum ↔ Optimism / OP Stack chainsStrength: Trust — 10/10Watch-out: 7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)Hop ProtocolScore 41Withdrawn: the Ethereum-rollup bridge whose site now serves a gambling page and whose app and route service are downStrength: Nothing — Hop is not operating; it was withdrawn on 23 October 2026Watch-out: Withdrawn 23 October 2026. On that day hop.exchange (and www.hop.exchange) served an Indonesian slot-gambling page titled "JUDIMPO Situs Judi Mpo Slot 10k dengan Peluang Maxwin Terbaik", app.hop.exchange answered HTTP 400 "unexpected error" and the route API api.hop.exchange/v1/available-routes answered HTTP 530; the same three surfaces had already failed on 2026-09-30. Do not follow hop.exchange: it is not Hop
Quick facts
At a glance
FactHop ProtocolOptimism Gateway
PricingSnapshotWithdrawn 23 October 2026 (hop.exchange serves a gambling page; app and route API down), so no current price exists. Last read, kept for the record: Hop user docs, "Fees" (docs.hop.exchange/basics/fees, fetched 30 September 2026; the page reads "Last updated 2 years ago"): "3. Bonder fee (0.05-0.30%)", AMM swap fees of "0.01% - 0.04%" per swap ("L2 <> L2 -> 0.02% - 0.08% swap fees (because two swaps)"), destination gas, and "To prevent spamming there is a minimum fee of $0.25 per Hop transfer." These are documentation figures only: on the same date app.hop.exchange answered HTTP 400 "unexpected error", the quote API api.hop.exchange returned a Cloudflare origin-DNS error, explorer.hop.exchange returned a Netlify "Site not found" page and hop.exchange served an unrelated gambling page, so no live Hop price could be read.OP docs, "Using the Standard Bridge" (docs.optimism.io/app-developers/guides/bridging/standard-bridge, fetched 30 September 2026): no bridge fee is stated on that page; the cost is gas, set per transfer as "_minGasLimit : Gas to use to complete the transfer on the receiving side." Deposits "are usually completed within 1-3 minutes" and withdrawals "are completed in 7 days as a result of the withdrawal challenge period", with a prove and a finalize transaction on Ethereum. No dollar cost is published on the page, so the dollar ranges the previous note carried are not repeated.
Asset coverageEditorialRollup-specific bridge movement across supported token routesETH and registered ERC-20s
Region fitSnapshotus, europe, globalglobal
From the published criteria
Which should you pick?
HO
Hop Protocol
41#18 of 18
Pick it when
Pick Hop Protocol if route coverage matters most — it scores 3/10 to Optimism Gateway's 1/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Nothing — Hop is not operating; it was withdrawn on 23 October 2026
Tradeoff
Withdrawn 23 October 2026. On that day hop.exchange (and www.hop.exchange) served an Indonesian slot-gambling page titled "JUDIMPO Situs Judi Mpo Slot 10k dengan Peluang Maxwin Terbaik", app.hop.exchange answered HTTP 400 "unexpected error" and the route API api.hop.exchange/v1/available-routes answered HTTP 530; the same three surfaces had already failed on 2026-09-30. Do not follow hop.exchange: it is not Hop
Optimism Gateway
55#9 of 18
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Optimism Gateway if trust matters most — it scores 10/10 to Hop Protocol's 5/10 there (weight 26).
Strength
Trust — 10/10
Tradeoff
7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
HOHop Protocol
Choose Hop Protocol if route coverage matters most
Route coverage: 3/10 against 1/10 for Optimism Gateway (weight 28)
Transfer speed: 4/10 against 3/10 for Optimism Gateway (weight 22)
Hop ProtocolScore 41Withdrawn: the Ethereum-rollup bridge whose site now serves a gambling page and whose app and route service are downStrength: Nothing — Hop is not operating; it was withdrawn on 23 October 2026Watch-out: Withdrawn 23 October 2026. On that day hop.exchange (and www.hop.exchange) served an Indonesian slot-gambling page titled "JUDIMPO Situs Judi Mpo Slot 10k dengan Peluang Maxwin Terbaik", app.hop.exchange answered HTTP 400 "unexpected error" and the route API api.hop.exchange/v1/available-routes answered HTTP 530; the same three surfaces had already failed on 2026-09-30. Do not follow hop.exchange: it is not Hop
Optimism GatewayLeads
Choose Optimism Gateway if trust matters most
Trust: 10/10 against 5/10 for Hop Protocol (weight 26)
Route clarity: 9/10 against 4/10 for Hop Protocol (weight 24)
Optimism GatewayScore 55Native canonical bridge for Ethereum ↔ Optimism / OP Stack chainsStrength: Trust — 10/10Watch-out: 7-day withdrawal window for direct exits (third-party bridges offer fast withdrawals)
Criterion by criterion
Scorecard
Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology
Route coverage
by 2 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Hop Protocol leads
Hop Protocol3/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway1/10 out of 10
Route clarity
by 5 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Optimism Gateway leads
Hop Protocol4/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway9/10 out of 10
Transfer speed
by 1 of 10weight 5.3 of 86Hop Protocol leads
Hop Protocol4/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway3/10 out of 10
Trust
by 5 of 10weight 6.2 of 86Optimism Gateway leads
Hop Protocol5/10 out of 10
Optimism Gateway10/10 out of 10
Score dimensions
weights sum to 86
The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.
Availabilityweight 20 of 86
Hop Protocol14/20Optimism Gateway14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Hop Protocol0/30Optimism Gateway13.7/30
Optimism Gateway leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Hop Protocol2.7/10Optimism Gateway2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86
Hop Protocol3.2/8Optimism Gateway3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86
Hop Protocol6.9/18Optimism Gateway12.5/18
Optimism Gateway leads
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Optimism Gateway unless the term Hop Protocol leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Hop Protocol if route coverage matters most — it scores 3/10 to Optimism Gateway's 1/10 there (weight 28).
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Verification failure: an invalid state or transfer is accepted.
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Control failure, Liveness failure, Custody failure, Regulatory failure, Execution failure, Exit failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
Also scored, as cost, quality or a summary of several families: Route coverage (28%), Route clarity (24%), Execution speed (22%).
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Optimism Gateway scores 14 points above Hop Protocol, which no longer operates (since 2026-10-23) and scores zero on the criteria block. Published scores, out of 100: Hop Protocol 41 (rank 18 of 18 bridges), Optimism Gateway 55 (rank 9 of 18).
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